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Fascioliasis.
The infectious disease fascioliasis is caused by the trematodes of fasciola (Fasciola Hepatica), which are carried by cattle, sheep, goats and other herbivores. With feces, the eggs of fasciolus enter the external environment and can remain viable for several months. In water, fasciola eggs are stored for up to a year.
A person becomes infected by eating wild plants growing near water bodies, in flooded meadows, as well as irrigated vegetables, for which water from artificial and natural reservoirs is used.
A person is rarely a carrier and source of infection. When infected with fascioliasis, helminths colonize the liver tissue (ducts of the bile glands), and their vital activity has a toxic and destructive effect on the liver.
Helminths are able to move with blood to various organs and tissues and seed the entire body. With excessive filling of the bile ducts, helminths contribute to their pathological expansion, and also create stagnation in the ducts that impede the movement of bile. This provokes cholangitis.
Signs of fascioliasis
- can be asymptomatic, without an acute phase, go into a chronic course,
- pain in the right hypochondrium,
- yellowness of the skin,
- the liver increases in size,
- tests show eosinophilic leukocytosis,
- allergic reactions, Quincke edema, allergic myocarditis,
- if the brain is affected, the person is worried about headaches.
Treatment of fascioliasis involves a liver-friendly diet, taking choleretic drugs to free the biliary tract from parasites, taking antihistamines and antiparasitic drugs. The prognosis is positive, provided that the treatment is carried out correctly.
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